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Dr. Joe Vipond, Emergency Physician
Dr. Joe Vipond, Emergency Physician
(in person speaker)
Dr. Joe Vipond has worked as an emergency physician in Calgary for over twenty years. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Cumming School of Medicine. He has been active on the climate crisis since learning of its repercussions 15 years ago. His first advocacy campaign was as a spokesperson and strategist for the Alberta Coal Phase Out movement, and the Canadian Coal Phase Out network. He is the Past-President of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. He is one of the co-founders of Masks4Canada, Protect Our Province Alberta, and the local non-profit Calgary Climate Hub. Joe has been a strong advocate for following a science-based approach to the pandemic including the recognition of SARS-CoV-2 as airborne. Science underpins everything; physics, chemistry and biology should drive policies.
Dr. Angela Grace, Ph.D. Registered Psychologist
Dr. Angela Grace, Ph.D. Registered Psychologist
(remote speaker)
Dr. Angela Grace is a Registered Psychologist in Calgary. She completed her Ph.D. in Counselling Psychology at the University of Calgary, with a focus on Comprehensive School Health, primarily collaborative approaches to prevention and health promotion. She has lived experience with Long COVID and provides counselling and advocacy for children and families suffering from Long COVID.
Dr. Malgorzata (Gosia) Gasperowicz, Developmental Biologist and Research Associate
Dr. Malgorzata (Gosia) Gasperowicz, Developmental Biologist and Research Associate
Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary
Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary
(remote speaker)
Dr. Malgorzata (Gosia) Gasperowicz is a developmental biologist and a researcher at the University of Calgary. She earned her Masters at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology in Gdansk, Poland, and a PhD in biology at Albert Ludvig University of Freiburg, Germany. Dr. Gasperowicz is a member of COVIDisAirborne, World Health Network (WHN), and Protect Our Province Alberta. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Dr. Gasperowicz has been analyzing the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 spread and communicating this scientific understanding to the public via social and traditional media. She also advocates for better pandemic-response policies.
John Oudyk MSc CIH ROH, Occupational Hygienist
John Oudyk MSc CIH ROH, Occupational Hygienist
Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers
Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers
(remote speaker)
John has been involved with indoor air quality (IAQ) since the 1980’s (when background CO2 levels were 330 ppm – now they’re 420 ppm). He participated on the tripartite committee that wrote the Federal IAQ regulation. He has done about 150 IAQ investigations. Since 1991 he has used surveys to collect occupant air quality experiences and symptoms in his investigations. He designed a cell phone app called AirAssess with the help of the CCOHS. John has studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, and Health Research Methods at McMaster. He has presented 13 peer reviewed abstracts at various professional conferences and published two articles on air quality investigation methods. He has worked with the Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers for 33 years and is a certified occupational hygienist.
Dorothy Wigmore, Occupational health specialist (hygiene, ergonomics, “stress”),
Dorothy Wigmore, Occupational health specialist (hygiene, ergonomics, “stress”),
Researcher, Educator, Writer/Editor
Researcher, Educator, Writer/Editor
(remote speaker)
Dorothy Wigmore still has her early 1990s “Fresh air” enscribed brick from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). One of her filing cabinets has at least one-and-a-half drawers full of materials about indoor air hazards and solutions. These days, her work includes building Corsi-Rosenthal boxes with and for migrant farmworkers, to clean the air in their living quarters and work spaces, and writing a lot about indoor air and other health and safety topics for the New Jersey Education Association. A long-time occupational health specialist, Dorothy has training, skills and experience in occupational hygiene, ergonomics, “stress” and their intersections in a wide variety of jobs and workplaces. She has worked for unions representing education workers in the United States and Canada as a hygienist, researcher, educator and writer and with/for other unions, governments, occupational health centres/clinics, NGOs and universities. A pioneer of body and workplace mapping, her international network of occupational health and safety colleagues and friends provide connections to creative and effective health and safety activities and solutions around the world. Dorothy is on contract with the Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW) migrant farmworker projects, where she learned to make the CR boxes and has prepared materials about hazards, respirators, other pandemic protections and worker rights.
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